City Of Punta Gorda, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.4 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
City Of Punta Gorda at a glance
City Of Punta Gorda serves about 36,302 people through 14,302 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Charlotte County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6080051; phone on file: 941-575-5055. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.1 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Punta Gorda is 4.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 1,481 Florida systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 85 have gone over at some point. City Of Punta Gorda's 4.4 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Florida and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Charlotte County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Punta Gorda. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte County Utilities | 173,820 | 9.6 ppb |
| Town And Country Utility | 13,427 | 0.4 ppb |
| Charlotte County Utilities / Burnt Store | 13,376 | 3 ppb |
| Gasparilla Island Water Assoc | 6,605 | 3.3 ppb |
| Charlotte Harbor Water Assn. | 4,722 | 2.8 ppb |
| Riverwood Community Del. Dist. | 2,243 | 2.7 ppb |
| Charlotte Correctional Institution | 1,779 | 0.2 ppb |
| El Jobean Water Association | 1,351 | 0.7 ppb |
| Little Gasparilla Water Utility Inc | 1,330 | 0.2 ppb |
| Bocilla Utilities, Inc. | 1,068 | 2.7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Punta Gorda, FL may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask City Of Punta Gorda whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.